Vehicle connectivity and communication device
AssigneeAveopt, Inc.
InventorArthur Kahn
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Abstract
A vehicle connectivity and communication device includes at least one transmitter/receiver for establishing and maintaining communications with a system for controlling and/or monitoring vehicles and/or traffic over at least two different communications infrastructures, at least one sensor for measuring and reporting a performance characteristic of communication over the different communications infrastructures, and a controller for selecting an active communications infrastructure based on the measured performance characteristic.
Claims20
A vehicle connectivity and communication device comprising:
- at least one transceiver configured to selectively communicate with at least two different communication infrastructures from the group of a wireless cellular communication infrastructure, a radio frequency communication infrastructure, and a satellite communication infrastructure;
- at least one sensor configured to measure a performance characteristic of each of the selected communication infrastructures and to generate a signal indicative of the measured performance characteristic for each respective selected communication infrastructures;
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- a controller in communication with the at least one transceiver and the at least one sensor configured to select at least one of the at least two different communication infrastructures and deselect the other of the at least two difference communication infrastructures based on the signal indicative of the measured performance character for each of the respective selected communication infrastructures.
A vehicle connectivity and communication device comprising:
- at least one transceiver configured to selectively communicate with at least two different communication infrastructures having different communication protocols and selected from the group of a land-based communication infrastructure, an aerial-based communication infrastructure and a space-based communication infrastructure;
- at least one sensor configured to measure a performance characteristic of each of the selected communication infrastructures and to generate a signal indicative of the measured performance characteristic for each respective selected communication infrastructures;
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- a controller in communication with the at least one transceiver and the at least one sensor configured to select at least one of the at least two different communication infrastructures and deselect the other of the at least two difference communication infrastructures based on the signal indicative of the measured performance character for each of the respective selected communication infrastructures.
A vehicle connectivity and communication device comprising:
- at least one transceiver configured to selectively communicate with at least two different communication infrastructures having different communication protocols;
- at least one sensor configured to measure a performance characteristic of each of the selected communication infrastructures and to generate a signal indicative of at least one of a strength of signal value, a calculated communication latency value, and an observed communication signal continuity value for each respective selected communication infrastructures;
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- a controller in communication with the at least one transceiver and the at least one sensor configured to select at least one of the at least two different communication infrastructures and deselect the other of the at least two difference communication infrastructures based on the signal indicative of the measured performance character for each of the respective selected communication infrastructures.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.